From 1997 to 1999, Lawrence Wong was a legal assistant in Messrs Kenneth Tan Partnership, a firm of advocates and solicitors. From 1999 to 2006, he practiced as an advocate and solicitor as a sole proprietor of Lawrence Wong & Co. From 2006 to 2007, he was a Senior Manager at Boardroom Corporate and Advisory Pte Ltd where he was performing corporate secretarial and advisory work as well as providing in-house legal support.
He is currently a partner of KhattarWong in the Corporate and Securities Law department and his areas of practice include corporate and securities laws, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, joint ventures, corporate and commercial contracts and development, compliance and corporate governance advisory and corporate secretarial work.
He graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1991 with an honours degree in law on a scholarship from the Public Service Commission of Singapore and has more than 17 years of experience in the public and private sectors of the legal profession.
He started his career in the legal service from 1992 to 1997, holding various appointments such as Senior Assistant Registrar of Companies and Businesses with the Ministry of Finance, Deputy Public Prosecutor with the Attorney General’s Chambers and Assistant Director of Legal Aid with the Ministry of Law.
He was
called as an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore in 1994. He is currently the
independent director of Artivision Technologies Ltd., a company listed on Catalist. |